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    | Promised "the final triumph over poverty" in accepting the 1928 nomination | 
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    | Thought by some to be in Cornwall, it's the legendary site of King Arthur's palace & court | 
    Camelot
 
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    | He's seen here around the time his HBO special "Bring the Pain" brought him a new level of fame | 
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    | In the first issue of his own comic, the Caped Crusader goes up against this "Clown Prince of Crime" | 
    (Alex: For those of you who are not aware, it's Batman's 80th anniversary, and this Saturday is Batman Day.)
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    | He was left an invalid by a paralytic stroke suffered while in office | 
    (Rodrigo: Who is FDR?)
  Woodrow Wilson
 
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    | The Cumberland Plateau is located in the southern section of this mountain range | 
    the Appalachians
 
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    | This voyeur who is struck blind has been connected with the legend of Lady Godiva | 
    Peeping Tom
 
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    | You didn't have to catch Rodney Dangerfield live--he was recorded in 1980 for an album with, of course, this 2-word title | 
    No Respect
 
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    | Luke 11:4 says, "lead us not into" this, "but deliver us from evil" | 
    temptation
 
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    | The person who presides over a debate, or over an ecclesiastical body in the Presbyterian Church | 
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    | The year he left the presidency, he became president (of the American Bar Association) | 
    William Howard Taft
 
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    | The Udi-Nsukka Plateau of this country is home to the Igbo people | 
    Nigeria
 
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    | Makemake is the chief god of a divine race of bird beings in the Rapa Nui mythology of this island | 
    Easter Island
 
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    | Samuel L. Jackson played the uncle of this comedian in a sketch from the 1987 concert film "Raw" | 
    Eddie Murphy
 
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    | Lying at the junction of the Bow & Elbow Rivers, this Alberta city was Canada's first to host the Winter Olympics | 
    Calgary
 
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    | One who makes calls on taxable value | 
    (Alex: Less than a minute.)
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    | 7 of the first 10 presidents were born south of the White House; Martin Van Buren & these 2 men were from the north | 
    John Adams & John Quincy Adams
 
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    | The Saharan al-Hamra Plateau is mostly located in Tripolitania in this country | 
    Libya
 
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    | For his 11th labor Hercules nabs some golden apples from the garden of these nymphs at the western edge of the world | 
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    | Recorded in part at the San Francisco club the hungry i, his 1960 "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!" won a Comedy Album Grammy | 
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    | In 1953 a fisherman paralleled "The Old Man and the Sea" by bringing in a 1,560-pound black one of these | 
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    | AKA justice of the peace; I present the gift of the... | 
    (Laura: Uh...what is the magi?)
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    | He got contract offers from the Lions & Packers to play in the NFL | 
    (Rodrigo: Who is Truman?)
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    | The Yangtze & the Mekong are 2 of the rivers emerging from the plateau named for this lofty land | 
    Tibet
 
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    | In Norse myth, it's the rainbow bridge between the home of the gods & Earth | 
    Bifröst
 
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    | Aussie comic Hannah Gadsby undermined traditional stand-up in this show on Netflix with a woman's name as the title | 
    Nanette
 
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    | 46,368, 75,025, 121,393 & 196,418 are specific to the work of this 12th & 13th century Italian man | 
    Fibonacci
 
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    | Someone who knows what's good & bad is this "of taste"; author Petronius was declared to be one in Nero's court | 
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